GO UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go up mean? 

• GO UP (verb)
  The verb GO UP has 7 senses:

1. move upward

2. increase in value or to a higher point

3. move towards

4. be erected, built, or constructed

5. go upward with gradual or continuous progress

6. burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire

7. travel up

  Familiarity information: GO UP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move upward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise

Context example:

The mist uprose from the meadows

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):

rocket; skyrocket (shoot up abruptly, like a rocket)

ascend; come up; rise; uprise (come up, of celestial bodies)

steam (rise as vapor)

chandelle (climb suddenly and steeply)

uplift (lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces)

bubble (rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles)

go up (be erected, built, or constructed)

soar; soar up; soar upwards; surge; zoom (rise rapidly)

climb; climb up; go up; mount (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)

scend; surge (rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Increase in value or to a higher point

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

climb; go up; rise

Context example:

the value of our house rose sharply last year

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):

bull (advance in price)

soar (go or move upward)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The stock market is going to go up

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move towards

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

approach; come near; come on; draw close; draw near; go up; near

Context example:

The enemy army came nearer and nearer

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)

"Go up" entails doing...:

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)

Verb group:

approach; come near (come near in time)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):

drive up (approach while driving)

bear down on; bear down upon (sail towards another vessel, of a ship)

edge in; edge up (push one's way into (a space))

close (draw near)

crowd; push (approach a certain age or speed)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be erected, built, or constructed

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

New buildings are going up everywhere

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

climb; climb up; go up; mount

Context example:

Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):

scale (climb up by means of a ladder)

escalade (climb up and over)

ramp (creep up -- used especially of plants)

mountaineer (climb mountains for pleasure as a sport)

ride (climb up on the body)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 6

Meaning:

Burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

burn down; burn up; go up

Context example:

The mountain of paper went up in flames

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

burn; combust (undergo combustion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):

incinerate (become reduced to ashes)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Travel up

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

ascend; go up

Context example:

The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope

Hypernyms (to "go up" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go up"):

come up; rise; rise up; surface (come to the surface)

uprise (ascend as a sound)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

The airplane is sure to go up

 Context examples 

“And I am for north,” said I, “because there are no hills there, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up any.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now, Soames, I am going to ask you to have the great kindness to go up to the room of young Gilchrist, and to ask him to step down into yours.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the years before and during menopause, the levels of female hormones can go up and down.

(Hormone Replacement Therapy, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

Now and again we saw a sail lower, heard the reports of the shot-guns, and saw the sail go up again.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That we go up at once and see for ourselves.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It seems to go up and down dramatically week by week, and if you think back through 2019, you likely will see that you’ve experienced a variety of emotions about your partner.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After a time there was another feast, and Cat-skin asked the cook to let her go up and see it as before.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“He wants us all four to go up to the house together.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you go up there, pointing with his whip towards the heights, and keep right on till you come to some houses facing the sea, I think you'll hear of her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Don’t go up there, Jim!” I cried, clutching at his arm.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)